Elegy for a Dead World

November 3, 2014 Dejobaan Games, LLC Popcannibal, Dejobaan Games, LLC
Simulator Adventure Indie
Linux PC Mac
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In Elegy, you'll travel to three worlds and write stories about their long-dead societies. You’ll lose yourself in settings inspired by the works of poets Keats, Byron, and Shelley, and use the game's system of writing prompts to help create your own masterpieces. Explore 27 different writing challenges, through which you create narratives about the worlds you visit, from multiple perspectives. In one challenge, you play an archaeologist, uncovering clues and writing about a city's final days; in another, you're a thief, composing a song about searching the wreckage for valuables; and in another, you're a bard penning a lament in rhyming couplets.
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Release Date November 3, 2014
Developer Dejobaan Games, LLC
Publisher Popcannibal, Dejobaan Games, LLC
Game Modes Single player
Themes Science fiction
Elegy for a Dead World

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